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Negative Review Response Generator

Paste a negative review, its rating and what you've done about it, and get a public response that owns the problem without arguing. Drafted by a model; read it before you post.

A public review is a support ticket everyone can read, and the response is read by more people than the review. Most responses get it wrong in one of two ways: a paragraph of defensiveness that argues with the customer in front of every future one, or a pasted "we're sorry you had this experience" that says the business did not read it. The second is more common. It is also easier to fix.

This tool drafts a response to the review you paste. Give it the review, the rating, the business, and what you have done or can offer — a refund, a process change, a direct line — pick a tone and a sign-off, and a model writes a response that names the specific complaint, says what changed, and takes the rest off the public page. A model drafts it; read it, check that every claim is true, then post. The model reads the review once; nothing is stored beyond a short cache.

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This ran once, on one input. The product runs on your whole site, every conversation.

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Example: response to a 2-star review about slow support

Hi Jordan,

Thank you for taking the time to write this, and I'm sorry. Four days without a reply to a billing question is not the service we want to give, and you shouldn't have had to chase us twice.

You're right about the cause, too: our support inbox was short-staffed over the second week of August and the queue got away from us. Since then we've added weekend coverage and put a hard target of one business day on every first reply, which we're now hitting.

Your original question — the duplicate charge — was refunded yesterday, and the refund should reach your card within five business days. If it doesn't, or if there's anything else outstanding, email me directly at the address below and it will come straight to me rather than the queue.

Alex Chen
Head of Support, Northwind
How to read it

What each input means

  1. 01

    The review

    The full text as posted, including the parts that are unfair. The draft responds to specifics — "waited four days for a reply" — so the more of the review it has, the less generic the response. Leave the reviewer's name out if you prefer.

  2. 02

    Star rating

    One to five. It sets the register: a 1-star gets a fuller response and an offer, a 3-star gets a shorter one that thanks them and fixes the thing they mentioned. A 5-star response is short and does not sell.

  3. 03

    Business name and what it does

    The name as it appears on the review site, and what you do. The response should sound like the business that was reviewed, not a template that could sit under any listing.

  4. 04

    What you can offer or have done

    The truthful version: refunded, replaced, changed the process, added staff on weekends, or nothing yet but a direct email to a named person. Do not list what you would like to have done. The response should hold up if the reviewer replies.

  5. 05

    Tone

    Warm for a consumer business where the reviewer is a person you would like back; Professional for B2B and for anything a competitor might quote; Brief when the review is short or the complaint is minor and a long response would look defensive.

  6. 06

    Sign-off name

    A named person with a role — "Alex, Head of Support", or the owner for a small location. A name says someone read the review; "The Northwind Team" says nobody in particular did. Leave it blank and the draft ends with a placeholder.

FAQ

Questions about this tool

Thank them for the specifics, name the problem in their words, say what you have done about it, and move the rest to a private channel with a real contact. Under 120 words. No excuses, no "however", and no asking them to change the rating — that reads as the point of the response, because it is.

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